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Smart Approaches to Marijuana (SAM) stated the following on a page titled "Rescheduling Marijuana," available at learnaboutsam.org (accessed July 10, 2017):
“[R]escheduling marijuana is neither necessary, nor desirable… Rescheduling marijuana would do nothing to allow more cannabis-based medicines. Cocaine is Schedule II today and is not allowed in a widespread fashion. Rescheduling would simply be a symbolic victory for advocates who want to legalize marijuana…
The mere act of placing herbal marijuana in Schedule II would not make it available to patients or address the conflict between state and federal law…
Rescheduling is not necessary to make marijuana products available for research… Schedule I status does not prevent a product from being tested and researched for potential medical use. Schedule I research certainly does go forward.”
July 10, 2017